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> The central feature of Project Texas is our work with Oracle to isolate the TikTok services serving U.S. users within Oracle’s U.S. cloud environment as an additional safeguard. Although gateways to the storage infrastructure are strictly monitored and controlled, U.S. users of the TikTok platform can still communicate and interact with global users for a cohesive global experience.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-fo...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547912
On topic: I was just mentioned this book to a coworker last week. I highly suggest Scott Adams' book How to Fail at Almost Anything and Still Win Big.
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/08/the-new-e...
Well hey, on a side note, at least they have an, albeit likely fake, web trading platform that's publicly accessible before Robinhood. Lol.
[1] https://imgur.com/a/OQJDi [2] https://cobinhood.com/trade/BTC-USD
Admittedly, I don't mind this because it has drastically improved service availability and quality in my area by stopping people from stealing cable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/03/24/...
Remember 1999-2001 when Google unseated Yahoo from the king of search? It was a feat that seemed impossible when you had established search engines like Lycos, Ask Jeeves, Excite, DogPile, etc. all competing in the space.
As with most industries and its enterprises, you'll always have an event horizon and then singularity until markets are saturated and the industry becomes irrelevant to the consumer.
And then there's the whole micro payment economy which is another thing.
In defense of the parent, anyone that practices a trade (singer, actor, artist, programmer, developer, engineer) typically doesn't identify themselves as one of the aforementioned titles unless they get paid to do so. Now, mind you, that doesn't mean in the most traditional sense that lack of monetary reward/success doesn't disqualify their skill but, in this world, it certainly validates ones work/interest.
To make my point, society typically doesn't label someone that can sing a 'singer' unless that is their profession and they get paid for it. Even though I script and do 'some' programming, I wouldn't dare call myself a programmer.
I believe that one shouldn't get too hung on titles. For me, at least, I find a sole definition limiting because there isn't a single title that describes everything that I'm good at, however, there is a single title that describes what I'm good enough to get paid for.
To this date, the breaches were not disclosed publicly.
Now on to games like StarCraft, DoDA, Quake 3, and Counter-Strike were all hailed as some of the greats, not because of the story like you pointed out, but because of the game mechanics that allowed them to be used as a medium for competitive gaming. And, as a former competitive gamer, I can attest to the addictive nature of gaming that causes your heart to race and one's palms to sweat while trying to clinch a victory.
For this, I believe you can't say stories don't matter. I believe there are games that are better suited for repetitive gameplay and those that rely on a great story and subpar game mechanics to reel in or captivate the player(s).
So far, it has done its job quite nicely. Just make sure you don't plan on installing it next to a webserver. Its installer hijacks port 80/443 with its own nginx webserver.